Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/
Laurence Lumsden
@laurencewrites.com
Dubliner in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal). Writer. https://www.LaurenceWrites.com/. 2025 Cúirt New Writing Fiction Prize. Posts in English/Français/Svenska. (He/Him/YerMan)
The Every Child Matters rally and march is taking place in Montreal today at 1 p.m. “Join us as we march to honour the children who never returned home and to remember those who continue to carry the impacts of residential schools.” #NDTR
The Every Child Matters rally and march is taking place in Montreal on Sept. 30
Sept. 30 is being observed in Montreal with a rally and march titled Every Child Matters: A Day of Action for Truth and Reconciliation.
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On the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we acknowledge and reflect on the deep intergenerational harm residential schools have caused to Indigenous families and communities. Art by Elaine Landry #OrangeShirtDay #EveryChildMatters #TruthAndReconciliation
Nous sommes amis grâce à notre histoire, alliés grâce à nos valeurs, et voisins grâce à Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon. 🇨🇦🇫🇷
For folks in Canada: a petition to the House of Commons to block a MAGA-supporting US company from taking ownership of vital Canadian payment infrastructure i.e. Moneris: www.ourcommons.ca/Petitions/en...
Petition e-7712 - Petitions
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spending my one wild & precious life on my silly phone while looking longingly at my beloved stack of books beside me waiting to be read
Ag súil go mór, mór le físdánta nua de mo chuid a roinnt aige seo d'Oíche Chultúir 🗣✏️ antaibhdhearc.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...
Delighted to be facilitating a short online session for the Society of Authors on Sept 18th. We'll free-up positive energy for our work, and find ways to love it even more in the face of set backs. Hope to see you there. 🦋 societyofauthors.org/event/feel-g...
Feel Good Friday - Transforming doubt into creativity - The Society of Authors
This session led by writer, Jenny Mitchell is for any writer who has felt their work isn’t good enough or who has moments of self-doubt, especially after facing rejection.
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Sometimes I feel old for remembering when the tech industry’s primary product wasn’t death threats
“Climate change isn’t some abstract, future threat. It’s here.” A feature by @mtltoula.bsky.social. Montréal Climate Week aims to empower communities and inspire action in the face of an existential crisis
Montréal Climate Week aims to empower communities and inspire action in the face of an existential crisis
The inaugural edition of Montréal Climate Week runs from Sept. 8 to 13, and the festival’s main guiding principle is “radical hope.”
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I'll be reading a short story as part of the Doors Into The Dark event dedicated to weird & wonderful fiction on 26th September at The Seamus Heaney Centre (Queen's University Belfast). Organised by @theactualemma.bsky.social and Niall McKenna. Tickets: www.seamusheaneycentre.com/Events/Doors...
🤠 Looking forward to this event at the Dublin Book Festival, where I'll be chatting with John O'Donnell and Niall McMonagle about the Short Story form #dbf26 @lilliputpress.bsky.social dublinbookfestival.com/event/the-ar...
The Art of the Short Story - Dublin Book Festival
Hear authors Niamh Mac Cabe and John O'Donnell discussing their short story collections at Dublin Book Festival 2026
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I'd planned to buy a new MacBook this fall, but won't be spending money on American tech until the US govt ends its trade war (and infantile mouthing off) against my country. Might take a while. I can wait.
I'd planned to buy a new MacBook this fall, but won't be spending money on American tech until the US govt ends its trade war (and infantile mouthing off) against my country. Might take a while. I can wait.
Seriously what is the point of being rich and famous if you're not going to be Dolly Parton about it
Please come join us for the Belfast launch of #NoVacancy at No Alibis on Tuesday 29th September with an intro from the lovely and very talented @bebeashley.bsky.social free tickets via No Alibis website
If you were confused about what happened in Ceuta last week read this piece by @lizcarolan.com who's looking at how it blew up online and who's behind it... www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Liz Carolan: Migrants pay a deadly price in Ceuta disinformation disaster
All the layers of neglected dysfunction in our information environment have come together into one deadly, toxic mess for Moroccans in Ceuta, writes Liz Carolan
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London loves, won’t you join us please to discuss this extraordinary book, finally being republished to the admiration it so richly deserves
This book is absolutely miraculous. Delighted to say we have an event at Foyles on the 13th August with @amykey.bsky.social @regretteruane.bsky.social Alice Vincent and Megan Hunter- also 🤞🏼, we shall be recieving a phone call from Joan Barfoot during the event! www.foyles.co.uk/events/unear...
Very excited to present UNDERTOW. This will be a showcase of new and emerging writers of weird and wonderful fiction. If you'd like to take part, please click here: www.seamusheaneycentre.com/news/Callfor...
Turns out the most punk rock things you can do are support your local library, be brave enough to make bad human art, and love the bees
Stories from Mavis Gallant, bagels from Fairmount Bagel - a happy Friday from Montreal! #shortstory #Montreal #bagel #TGIF
A wonderful man, a brilliant musician, I saw him several times at the Montreal Jazz Festival where he was a regular. RIP Mr. Jones. #OliverJones
#OtD 19 Jul 1984 the Dunnes Stores anti-apartheid strike began in Dublin, Ireland when Mary Manning was suspended for refusing to check out South African fruit. She and 11 others went on strike for three years until the govt banned SA goods stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9108...